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Speaker 1: Welcome to the ot Thief for January thirtieth, twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: My name is Mike Keith. Amy Wells is here. We

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Speaker 1: are glad to have you with us for this edition

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Speaker 1: of the Official Titans Podcast. Miss Wells, Hello, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited on this January thirtieth because of

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Speaker 1: the news that hit at five o'clock this morning about

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Speaker 1: what they're going to do with the NFL Draft in

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Speaker 1: Nashville starting on April the twenty fifth. It's the news

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Speaker 1: we've all been waiting for, and it's not exactly what

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Speaker 1: we expected to begin with either. Initially we were given

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Speaker 1: the impression that the players were going to be picked,

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Speaker 1: we thought right off the bat, although nobody said it

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Speaker 1: in a send amphitheater, right, and so that would obviously

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Speaker 1: limit the size of the crowd. That's what we were

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Speaker 1: sort of advised all along, and it turns out not

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Speaker 1: to be the case. What it turns out to be

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Speaker 1: is almost the exact shot that Amy Adams Trunk called

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Speaker 1: during the uniform unveiling. You'll remember the stage is set

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Speaker 1: up at Broadway and First Avenue, massive crowd as far

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Speaker 1: as you can see, and she says I believe Nashville

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Speaker 1: deserves to hold the draft. Just a few weeks later,

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Speaker 1: Nashville was awarded the draft and they have decided to

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Speaker 1: hold the draft in the same spot that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: read this and you just react as you will. This

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Speaker 1: is the news. No, not gasping necessarily, but here we go.

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Speaker 1: The main NFL Draft stage will be on First and Broadway.

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Speaker 1: Draft picks on the main stage will take place on

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Speaker 1: the evenings of Thursday, April twenty fifth, Friday April twenty sixth,

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Speaker 1: and during the afternoon of Saturday, April the twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: So you're going to be able to be down there

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Speaker 1: in the crowd watching guys get picked, which is so cool. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I think the access that that gives is remarkable. All right,

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Speaker 1: So everybody wants to know where will the team tables

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Speaker 1: be with the helmets that sit on them and the

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Speaker 1: magic phones and all of that. That'll be in the

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Speaker 1: skermer Horn within the skermer Horn Symphony Center. It will

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Speaker 1: be the host who Selection Square, So that's where that

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Speaker 1: part will take place. That makes sense. The NFL Draft Experience,

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Speaker 1: which is a three day festival, will be held in

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Speaker 1: the parking lots and areas surrounding Nissan Stadium. Tell me

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Speaker 1: about that. I was going to say the draft experiences,

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Speaker 1: the things like running the forty yard dash and getting

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Speaker 1: to do some of the things. That's where they set

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Speaker 1: up the virtual reality experience. It's where they set up

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Speaker 1: all the different teams locker rooms. It's where they'll put

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl rings since forever. So it's where you can

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Speaker 1: come and participate in activities and see a lot of

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Speaker 1: different things that you normally would never get to see

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Speaker 1: that are NFL related. It's really cool. Wow. Okay, the

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft red carp it will take place at the

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Speaker 1: Green at Riverfront Park. You will be at that. I

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Speaker 1: I know you do concerts with high level talent. You

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Speaker 1: band back together. Concerts with high level talent are being

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Speaker 1: planned on the main stage on Broadway all three days

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Speaker 1: and another stage across Cumberland River. Performers to be announced later.

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Speaker 1: Here's the biggest thing. Admission is free. That's awesome, free

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Speaker 1: free ninety nine. Now there is going to be more

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Speaker 1: information to come in the weeks leading up to the

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Speaker 1: draft obviously a lot more specifics about who's going to

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Speaker 1: perform and what you have to do if you want

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Speaker 1: to be there. But here's the condensed version for you.

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Speaker 1: On this January thirtieth, you are going to get to

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Speaker 1: take part in the NFL Draft and it's free, yep,

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Speaker 1: which is here. How close you'll be to the stage

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Speaker 1: will be determined by when you get there. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: you ain't gonna be sitting down, You're gonna be standing up.

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Speaker 1: But you've got a chance to watch players be picked

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Speaker 1: at Broadway and First Avenue. What a job by Butch Spirited,

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Speaker 1: What a job by Amy Adam Strunk who got this

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Speaker 1: just what a job by Nashville. With the reputation that

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Speaker 1: been to how many drafts in a row? Four? Five?

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Speaker 1: This hasn't been done. No, No, this is very different

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Speaker 1: whether it be game Day, whether it be the uniform release.

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Speaker 1: It sounds from what you just read to me like

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Speaker 1: we're taking the best parts of all of that putting

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Speaker 1: a good job by the NFL to listen to Butch

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Speaker 1: reaction at the uniform unveiling. They could not believe that

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Speaker 1: And if that didn't put Nashville over the top, I

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Speaker 1: looks like that phenomena. And good job NFL by listening

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Speaker 1: something really special. So instead of a couple thousand people

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Speaker 1: I think they're saying the numbers three hundred, Now that's

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Speaker 1: for everything. But still, I mean, whoever thought and growing

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Speaker 1: this year, I think it should be the Draft. That

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Speaker 1: And what an absolute you know, having just spent twenty

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Speaker 1: this will illustrate it. So again, the Draft April twenty

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Speaker 1: sounds so fun. It does. I'm just aunty about it,

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Speaker 1: We have been. We have been traveling. Ah, Mike, you

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Speaker 1: just got back from sunny Mobile, Alabama. It was not sunny,

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Speaker 1: little rainy. It was very rainy, which limited our ability

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Speaker 1: And then he continues to impress scouts. I mean Colin

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Speaker 1: Saunders from Western Illinois, the defensive lineman, raised his draft stock.

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Speaker 1: he will coach tight ends. He comes from Minnesota. Before

428
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Speaker 1: joining the Vikings in twenty eighteen, he was the Raiders

429
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. In twenty seventeen, he coached Derek Carr. He's

430
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Speaker 1: been a quarterback coach from twenty fifteen through twenty seventeen

431
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: and actually has a lot of experience coaching quarterbacks. He

432
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: spent three seasons as the quarterback coach in Detroit. Matthew

433
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: Stafford is the guy that he worked with there. Seems

434
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Speaker 1: like a really good choice to bring in somebody who

435
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Speaker 1: can add to Arthur Smith from an experienced standpoint in

436
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Speaker 1: this way and yet bring some new ideas as well.

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Speaker 1: That when I saw that on Saturday morning that they

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Speaker 1: were hiring Todd Downing as the tight end coach, I'd

439
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,919
Speaker 1: like that mixed total sense. Oh yeah, it seems like

440
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: a star. Yeah, And we've said it on the OTP.

441
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: The tight end coach position is such a valuable one

442
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: because they're involved in so many different aspects of the offense.

443
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: So to have someone who we'll already have that many

444
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: touch points on this offense anyway, and then who has

445
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: the experience that he has having been a coordinator, having

446
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: worked with quarterbacks him and it seems like he and

447
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: Arthur are cut from the same cloth, and so that

448
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: can only be helpful the rest of the staff. In case,

449
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: let's take a second to go over and obviously Mike

450
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: Rabel and his second year as head coach. Dean pas

451
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: returns for his second year as the defensive coordinator. Everybody's

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00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 1: back on defense secondary Carry Combs, inside linebackers Tyrone McKenzie,

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker Shane Bowen, defensive line Terrell Williams, and the

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Speaker 1: defensive assistant Scott Booker and Ryan Crowe. Quality control Matt Peas.

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Speaker 1: So all of those guys are back. Arthur Smith is

456
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Speaker 1: now the offensive coordinator, even though this is his ninth

457
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: year on the staff, first year as OC Keith Carter

458
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: and his second years the offensive line coach mentioned Todd

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Speaker 1: Downing is the tight end coach, and then all returning

460
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Speaker 1: for second years. Wide receiver coach Rob Moore, running back

461
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Speaker 1: coach Tony Doos, quarterback coach Pat O'Hara, Offensive assistance Les

462
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: Deckel and Mike Sullivan both have been here for quite

463
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Speaker 1: a while. Quality controlled Chandler Henry Henley, I should say,

464
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 1: special teams Craig Ackerman and Matt Edwards strengthened conditioning coach

465
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: Frank Parano knew from Boston College. Brian Bell returns for

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00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: his second year. So that's a look at the staff,

467
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: which is mostly unchanged. I like it. I think that's good.

468
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: I think that's exciting for this team that was starting

469
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: to get in their groove and now they can just

470
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Speaker 1: keep on on grooving into twenty nineteen. You wanted to

471
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Speaker 1: say grooving, I really really did all right. Super Bowl Sunday, Atlanta,

472
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Speaker 1: super Bowl fifty three, first time the Super Bowl has

473
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Speaker 1: been in Atlanta since Super Bowl thirty four. I knew

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Speaker 1: a guy that was there nineteen years ago today. Wow,

475
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: nineteen years ago today. That game was played January thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: Was that the coolest experience of your career? Yes? Calling

477
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl? Unquestionably, Yeah, unquestioned because you never saw

478
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: it coming, you know. For both of those teams. The

479
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: Rams won four games the year before, we were eight

480
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: and eight. Three straight years we had played in three

481
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 1: different stadiums. Started that season that it was playoffs or

482
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: pink slips. The feeling from mister Adams was if the

483
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: team didn't make the playoffs, he was going to fire

484
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: everybody and the team goes thirteen and three, finishes as

485
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: a wildcard, puts themselves in a position where they host

486
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: a playoff game against Buffalo. The Music City Miracle happens.

487
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Speaker 1: Go to Indianapolis and win, go to Jacksonville and beat

488
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: the Jags for a third straight time, and then we

489
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: turn around and go right to Atlanta. Here's what's wild

490
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: about that we beat Jacksonville. We get on a plane

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Speaker 1: and as we're flying back, Jeff Fisher is walking back

492
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Speaker 1: through the plane congratulating people. This is my first year,

493
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: I have just finished my first year's played by play announcer,

494
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: my second year with the team, and the head coach

495
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,959
Speaker 1: is walking through shaking every person's hand, thank you for

496
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Speaker 1: what you've done. Congratulations, you're going to the super Bowl,

497
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: You're an AFC champion. And this is the head coach

498
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: having these moments with people. At that time. We sat

499
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,479
Speaker 1: on the very back of the plane and he gets

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Speaker 1: to our area and he's shaking hands with all of

501
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: the different people with Titans Radio and he gets to

502
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: me and he goes, I need to see you. I'm like, okay,

503
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: your toast. So we go walking to the front of

504
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: the plane and he says, they're gonna be several thousand

505
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: people waiting on us at the stadium and we're gonna,

506
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Speaker 1: you know, go in and we need you to be

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Speaker 1: the master of ceremonies. And so I've been sick all week.

508
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: I mean, like really really, the sickest I'm knocking on wood,

509
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: the sickest I have been in my adult life. I

510
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,239
Speaker 1: have been for four or five days. I have just

511
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: now eaten a meal for the first time since like

512
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Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday. So I'm just starting to feel normal.

513
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: And now the head coach is telling me in the

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Speaker 1: front of the plane that I'm gonna have to get

515
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: up and and do this. I'm like, okay. So the

516
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: first thing I said, I said, I need a hat

517
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: because I wanted one of those championship hats that all

518
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: the players got. This is that's how sad I was

519
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: nineteen years ago, such a kid. I wanted a championship.

520
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,719
Speaker 1: Had my hair's real messed up? I need a hat.

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00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if my hair was messed up or not.

522
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: I just want a hat because I wanted an AFC championship.

523
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: Had right. So Coach Fisher just looks at somebody goes

524
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: get him a hat. I'm like, this is great, So

525
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: they got me a hat. And it's one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest memories in my life is walking out there and

527
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: seeing all those fans in the stands waiting on us.

528
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Speaker 1: When we got back. People were pulled over on the

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Speaker 1: side of the interstate honkey an us when we got back,

530
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: and it was the most magical period of time. So

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Speaker 1: we get back to the office and you get a

532
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: set number of tickets, and then you get the chance

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00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: to buy some tickets. As an employee, well, you've got

534
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Speaker 1: to decide who are you giving your tickets to? Right,

535
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: because my kids are babies at that point, so they're

536
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: obviously not going, and so you're you're figuring out who

537
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: from you know, my parents and my father in law

538
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: and you know, people like that that I'm going to

539
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: do stuff for. But then who are you gonna because

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00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna buy the tickets, right, Oh, I mean, you

541
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: don't turn down the opportunity to buy the tickets, but

542
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: who are you going to give those two? And then

543
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: how are you going to do? Hotel? How are you

544
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: going to get your wife down there? We were in

545
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,239
Speaker 1: the office until four o'clock in the morning. Wow, And

546
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: so I got home, I slept for four hours. I

547
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: came right back because there was no week off. We

548
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: left at two o'clock on Monday afternoon. All of this

549
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: happened in the space of twelve to fourteen hours between

550
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: getting back fans at the stadium, probably sixteen hours actually.

551
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: And then we get off the plane. And one of

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00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: the great memories that I have as a kid in

553
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: watching the Super Bowl, and I've watched it this week.

554
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl teams arrived. They always have it. Here's

555
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl teams getting off the plane in Miami

556
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: for the you know, it's the Steelers and the Cowboys,

557
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: and you know, so I have all these memories. Well,

558
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: they show us getting off the plane and they show

559
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Speaker 1: Steve McNair. I'm behind Steve McNair. I didn't realize it.

560
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to get behind Steve McNair, but that

561
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: really drove So I see that on Sports Center and

562
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that's awesome. That's the greatest thing episode.

563
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: It's like everything, I got a hat, I'm speaking in

564
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Speaker 1: front of thousands of people. I'm behind Steve McNair. Well,

565
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: then we get to Atlanta, Larry Stone gets sick, Larry

566
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: Stone gets the same thing I had had the week before.

567
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: So for the whole week I have to do Larry

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00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: Stone's job getting ready for a seven hour pregame because

569
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: Larry's so sick he can't get out of bed. Larry

570
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: is Titans Radio as producer, and anybody who knows our

571
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: history knows he's the glue. And I mean he was

572
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: deathly ill until Saturday, and so the week just and

573
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: then we had the ice storm. We couldn't go anywhere,

574
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: so there was no enjoying the week in that way.

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00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: But Game day was just magical, yeah, you know, even

576
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Speaker 1: for how it ended. And I have never felt after

577
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: any athletic of it, even back when I was playing

578
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,719
Speaker 1: in high school, to now like I did after losing

579
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: that game. In terms of sadness, yeah, really, yeah, I've

580
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: never felt that way. I've never felt that way about

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00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: a game before or since, and it big wins. That is,

582
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: I've never been that high, but I have been that low, right,

583
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: I want to be that high well. And the fashion

584
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: in which that game ended is just crushing. It was heartbreaking, yes, well,

585
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: especially for the run that we had been on, right,

586
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: because it was this magic the miracle and going to

587
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: Indy and beating Peyton Manning when we're not supposed to

588
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: and beating Jacksonville. I mean, this was and it started

589
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: on January second in Pittsburgh with the final regular season game.

590
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: We played this wild, fun game over y two K weekend.

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00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: And so there's this whole month of just crazy and

592
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: now it's over, right, and you haven't won because I

593
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: never considered we weren't going to win, right, You're the

594
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: team of destined at that point the Bowls, Yeah, yeah,

595
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,720
Speaker 1: that was That was the tough thing. But what gives

596
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: me hope about getting to feel the other way? I

597
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: was going back and I was looking at it this

598
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: week we club Claubert the Patriots. Yeah yeah, And I

599
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: keep yelling it at the TV when they're talking about

600
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Speaker 1: all of the magic and all of the wonder of

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00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: this Patriots team. Did they play well in the playoffs?

602
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: Absolutely proud of them. They got do you know who?

603
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: They got smoked by Tennessee Titan, And let's talk about

604
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: that here. And here's what gets me about that. And

605
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: I'm not knocking the Patriots because they didn't have a

606
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: good day. I get that. This gets me fired up.

607
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: But the offensive line was healthy, Marcus Mariota was healthy.

608
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: The defense was healthy suddenly. I mean on November eleventh.

609
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: It was that period right after the bye Dallas and

610
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: New England was the healthiest our team was there, the

611
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: most prepared. Our team was go out, fumble the ball,

612
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: do whatever against Dallas in the first quarter, and then

613
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: the next three quarters just run over them, just smoke

614
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: a good Dallas team in Dallas, and then come back

615
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: and do that to the Patriots. And thinking about that

616
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: really got me pumped, because it's like, I don't think

617
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 1: this team's that far away. I don't. I think that's

618
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: the proof that if we can keep the quarterback healthy,

619
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 1: if we can, if we can get you know, things together,

620
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: hopefully get Jack Conklin back looking like he did for

621
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: a few weeks in that offensive line, the defense had

622
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: more health at that point than they did at anytime.

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Speaker 1: It's just a it's just a good feeling. You think

624
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: the Patriots win the whole thing? Yeah? I think so.

625
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: I think that they have the experience. I think that

626
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: they are better suited for a game like this. And

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Speaker 1: the only thing that makes that okay with me in

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Speaker 1: my tiny little dark heart right now is Jason mccordy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want it for Jason mccordy because he's had to

630
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 1: watch someone with basically the same face as him walk

631
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: around the world with two Super Bowl rings and he

632
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: doesn't have any, and that makes me sad for him,

633
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: so in that regard, But I'm trying to accept the

634
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 1: inevitable early so I can just enjoy the game. Hopefully

635
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: it's a good game. I think for a one off game,

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Speaker 1: I think, if this is best three out of five,

637
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 1: I take the Rams. Yeah. I take the Rams all

638
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: day long. They may win three games to one, right,

639
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: but in a one off situation with a week off.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing, too, is with Gronkowski healthy. Yeah,

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00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: that's the thing about the Patriots. And this may be

642
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: Gronkowski's last game. I was gonna say, I think he's

643
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: done after this game. I think he's Who would you

644
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: pick his MVP? Now you've seen the stats, I've seen

645
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: the stack. Twenty nine quarterbacks have been MVPs, six tailbacks,

646
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: six wide receivers, four linebackers, three defensive lineman, three defensive backs,

647
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: one fullback, one kicker returner. I bet you, just knowing,

648
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Speaker 1: I have a feeling it'll be Tom Brady. Okay if

649
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: I don't like that, but I think it's Gronkowski and

650
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: then he's gone, and then he's gone, and he becomes

651
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: the first ever tight end to win the MVP of

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. No tight end has ever been MVP

653
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: of a Super Bowl. That's very poetic, isn't it. I

654
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: like it a lot, But I think it's Tom Brady.

655
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: I think it's always Tom Brady. I think I'm a

656
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 1: little cynical today. All right, So next few super Bowls.

657
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Speaker 1: Fifty four is in Miami, fifty five in Tampa, fifty

658
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: six at the New LA Stadium, fifty seven in Phoenix,

659
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: fifty eight in New Orleans. I like the I'm intrigued

660
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: by Tampa. Tampa seems like the interesting one to me. No,

661
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: it's weird about Tampa is Tampa has their stadium opened

662
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: a year before ours did. It's exactly the same as

663
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: our stadium, except it has a pirate ship. Yeah, which

664
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 1: is a nice step. Everybody. If we got a pirate ship,

665
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be Now want you to be able to

666
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: do what Cody Allison did, our sideline reporter, one of

667
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: your predecessors, Cody Allison, convinced the guy the year they

668
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: opened the stadium, he convinced the guy in the pirate

669
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: ship to fire the cannon in pregame. Seriously, yeah, it's

670
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: a great story. Cody Allison one of the all time

671
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: greatest human beings ever, the greatest travel partner you can

672
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: ever have. We had more fun doing stuff over the

673
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: course of many years traveling. Great prank caller, I mean,

674
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: just can do it all. I mean, he's the five

675
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 1: tool player when it comes to stuff like this. He

676
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: convinced the guy. And this first year of the stadium.

677
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 1: So it's ninety eight, we're still the oilers and he's

678
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: down there, oh the doing a pregame feature, and he

679
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: tells the guy. He says, um, so the cannon fires.

680
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the cannon fires, because well, why don't you

681
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: fire it for us? Oh? No, I can't fight us.

682
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: And then Cody gets well, it's because you don't know

683
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: how He starts bating again. He's like, it's because you.

684
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: It's because you're without a clue, you don't know. You

685
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: just you can't do it. And so then the guy's like,

686
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: well I can, I can fire the cannon the most juvenile.

687
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: So the guy fires the cannon like in pregame and

688
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: scares everybody to do. Cody Allison convinced cannon guy to

689
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: fire the cannon in the pregame of our great wind

690
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: down there in nineteen ninety eight. That makes me happy.

691
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football. Really, Yes, Steve McNair with one of

692
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: the greatest runs ever and the great Joe McConnell with

693
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: one of the finest radio calls I've ever heard. Really,

694
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: Steve McNair takes the wind out of the ray Ja

695
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: and out of this announcer as well. Whoa, that's very sad.

696
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: What no, Well, I mean, but it sounds kind of no.

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00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: I was wonder it was tremendous. Great Joe McConnell was

698
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: a great announcer. Yeah, but I'm excited about these these

699
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: Super Bowl locations. I think they're going to be really good.

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Speaker 1: Sweet I have a question for you before we wrap

701
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,240
Speaker 1: all this up. I know we need to do that eventually, Okay.

702
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: The Talk of the Town has been on Talk of

703
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 1: the Town today with Meryl Rose on Channel five. Oh

704
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: there you go. So that was nice too. Check Mike

705
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: out on Top of the Town with Meryl Rose. Um,

706
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a casserole. Please do Oh, she's so cool.

707
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: But seriously, the buzz around here has been that Mike

708
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: Keith is in a feature film. It's true, it is true.

709
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,240
Speaker 1: It's called Cecil, and this has been years in the making.

710
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: This is not a recent thing. No, But what was

711
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: that experience like? Well, the backstory on it is one

712
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: of the guys who's worked with us for years on

713
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: our TV programming is Spencer Fritz, who is a filmmaker.

714
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,720
Speaker 1: He went to Watkins. He and his wife, Amanda Dillingham

715
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: went to Watkins, which is the great film school right

716
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 1: across the way from us, as a matter of fact,

717
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: and they've put out tons of talented people over the years.

718
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: People come from all over the country to study film

719
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: at Watkins. And so his dream had always been to

720
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: make a movie, and he wrote a movie about basically

721
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: his experience growing up with a lisp. His name is

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00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: Spencer Frist and having that name with a bit of

723
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: a speech impediment was hard to say, and so he

724
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: came up with Cecil Stevens and Cecil decides to change

725
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,720
Speaker 1: his name to make him to make his name easier

726
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: to say, and to make himself more cool. I'm not

727
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: going to give away what he changes his name to

728
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: but it's said in the nineties. And he asked me,

729
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: he said, we're thinking about making this movie because we

730
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: need to shoot a demo. He said, you're kind of

731
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: who we thought of to play this coach his basketball coach.

732
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: And I think it's like sixth grade basketball and fifth

733
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: grade basketball, something like that. And so I did it,

734
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: and they said, we want you to, you know, to

735
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: play it this particular way. I have a cousin who's

736
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: an actor. His name is David Keith, and he was

737
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: an officer and a gentleman and the Lords of Discipline

738
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 1: and he was in Major League two. He played Jack Parkman.

739
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: He played Elvis in a movie. He played Oliver North

740
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: in a TV movie. I mean, he's a great career

741
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: just on Hawaii five. Oh by the way, Well there

742
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 1: you go. And so I've always been kind of interested

743
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: in this. So I decided to do it, and I

744
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: don't think anything about it. We shoot the demo and

745
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: they're like, thanks a lot, you really, you know, it's great.

746
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: And so then they get the funding to do the

747
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: movie and they said, would you come back and play

748
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: this part in the movie, play this a little bit

749
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: off center. Coach you've seen it. How would you term

750
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: the coach. I think a little bit off center is

751
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 1: the best way to put it. I would say maybe

752
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: takes this job too serious. Probably yeah, probably so. But

753
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: I mean, we shot this four years ago. It was

754
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: shot four years ago, and it's funny to see the

755
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: kids in the movie now because they're like teenagers and

756
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 1: at the time they were nine, ten to eleven years

757
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: old and now they don't look anything like what they did.

758
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: But it came out on January twenty second, and it's

759
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: available on video on demand, and it's one of the

760
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: best learning experiences I've ever had. Not only is it

761
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: cool and was it fun, but it was a great

762
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: learning experience. And to see Spencer and what his incredible

763
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: talents are in that way and help me understand why

764
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: he does such a great job for us on our

765
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: TV programming. I mean, it was it was really, really something,

766
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: and a lot of people over the last eight days

767
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: have seen it. It's a great thing for the kids

768
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: during a snow day or whatever. It's not heavy, it's

769
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: not a deep plot. No, it's a very cute movie.

770
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: Though not gonna runnin any not gonna win any oscars.

771
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: I have a love interest. I mean, it's kind of

772
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: a deeper part of the story that part of it. No,

773
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: but it is a very cute movie. And obviously knowing

774
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: you knowing Spencer and Amanda and having worked with them

775
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: for years, just watching it and thinking, holy smoke, this

776
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: is a real movie. Like it's an actual like a

777
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: movie with different camera angles and actors and everything. It's

778
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: it's just really cool. So everyone should go check it out.

779
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: It's called cecil. Where can people find it? Video on demand?

780
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: All all different ways that you get video on demand

781
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: and everybody knows how they do that on their TV.

782
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: It's not terribly expensive. It's an hour in twenty minutes. Yeah,

783
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 1: so if you need to put the kids in a

784
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: room and you know, get an hour in twenty minutes

785
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: during a snow day, it would be a it would

786
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: be a perfect thing to do. And that's awesome. Yeah,

787
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: and I get no back end, so just do it

788
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: the good of Spencer and Amanda and the hour in

789
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: twenty minute. It's fun. It's fun, and it was a

790
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: it was a great experience. It's one of the things. Um,

791
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: I'm very I was thankful for it at the time,

792
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: even even if it never got put out. I was

793
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: thankful for it, and now that it is, I'm especially

794
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: thankful for the opportunity, in large part to see what

795
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: Spencer and a man to have accomplished in doing this.

796
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: It's like building a house. Well, and Jason London from

797
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: Days and Confused is in it. And what six his

798
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: name from from Blossom from Blossom, Yeah, yeah, Genevan Away,

799
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: Genovon Away, good job, and they're both in it. And

800
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: there's some other local actors who are like real live

801
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: actors who are I mean, like really do this for

802
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: a living and they are incredibly talented people and we're

803
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: so nice and so helpful. Um, it's it's really you know,

804
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: it's nice to step outside of your world and learn

805
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: something different. And I was lucky too because I went

806
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: into it knowing I know nothing. You know, I don't.

807
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: I don't understand anything about this too. I was for

808
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: once in my life, I was totally coachable. Wow, most

809
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: of the time not so much. What did an experience

810
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: kind of a hard hit? It feel good? Though it did.

811
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: I should do that more. I should listen, I should

812
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: be more open. I'll help you, you will help And

813
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: thanks for bringing up that's cecil the name of the

814
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: movie is Cecil and it's a it's a kid's movie.

815
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: It's very cute. It's not like The Notebook or anything

816
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: like that. But do you want to be in the

817
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: Notebook that that's your next really like to be in

818
00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:01,720
Speaker 1: a Mafia movie, the New Sopranos prequel. You would actually

819
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: be really good. Really Like if people see this coach,

820
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: they may say, oh, yeah, we need him in a mob.

821
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: Yeah is a chair thrower. Thanks for bringing that up though, Yeah,

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00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: very kind a thing. So that's going to do it

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Speaker 1: for the OTP for January thirtieth, chock full of information.

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